Jeff Kostoff – Males’s Swimming and Diving Coach

Jeff Kostoff was named assistant head coach for males’s and girls’s swimming in July 2013. Kostoff’s work will concentrate on helping with distance and 400 particular person medley swimmers.

Kostoff was a two-time U.S. Olympian as a part of the 1984 and 1988 squads. He completed sixth within the 400-meter particular person medley on the 1984 video games in Los Angeles, and was ninth in the identical occasion in Seoul in 1988. In 1983 he was the gold medalist within the 1,500-meter freestyle on the Pan Am Games.

A 1987 graduate of Stanford with a bachelor’s diploma in historical past, Kostoff gained 5 particular person NCAA titles throughout his time on The Farm and was a member of NCAA champion groups in 1985, 1986 and 1987. He additionally competed on the cross-country group at Stanford. Kostoff’s document at Stanford within the 1,650-yard freestyle stood for 21 years (1986-2007), whereas his nationwide age-group document within the 500-yard freestyle held for 30 years (1983-2013) earlier than being damaged by Jack Conger earlier this 12 months. Kostoff held the American document within the 1,650 freestyle from 1983-1994.

Since 2007 Kostoff has labored in data know-how as a senior gross sales government and methods engineer with PTFS in Bethesda, Md. He frolicked as an assistant swimming coach/assistant aquatics director at Maryland (1993-97) and was additionally the pinnacle swimming coach at Manor Country Club (1991-98), St. John’s College High School (1992-93) and Rockville High School (1997-99).